Improvement in eaves-trough hangers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH B. HARVEY, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN EAVES-TROUGH HANGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,731, dated January 25, 1876 application filed August 4, 1875.

i a hook to be easily attached to a building and become a perfect support of the gutter, and provided with a simple means of holding it in position.

The figure shows the form of the hook, and the mode of attaching to the building, and of securing the gutter in it.

This hook will ordinarily be made of castiron, but it may be Wrought. It is made with a base,'A, to come against and be secured to the portion of the cornice H, or of the building, directly below the eaves K.

From the base the hook'B projects outin front to form the support of the gutter O, as shown, lying in it. This hook may be in any shape to suit the desired form of the gutter. From the base upward, to come under the eaves, is a member which terminates with a hook, D, or it has the end turned over forward to form a notch, into or under which the gutter is placed when being put up, and there it remains.

Wheuthe gutter is fitted in position on the supports B and under the hooks D, a strip, E, of tin or other sheet metal, secured to the end ofthe hook B, is bent over the outer edge of the gutter, and soldered to it; or, in the place of a soft tin strip to be soldered fast, this strip may be a spring, passing inthe same way over the edge of the gutter, which, with out soldering to the gutter, would hold it in position; or, an equivalent to this strip may be secured to the edge of the gutter, and in putting up be made fast to the end ofthe JOSEPH B. HARVEYa Witnesses:

HORACE HARRIs, J No. S. LITTELL. V 

